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The Chinese government has recently focused on the need to increase consumption to rebalance the economy. A widely held view is that despite China''s remarkably high growth, the share of consumption in total expenditure has been low and declining due to high and rising saving rate of Chinese...
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creating alternative savings instruments are likely to have the biggest impact on consumption. Other mechanisms to raise …
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China’s household saving rate has increased markedly since the mid-1990s and the age-savings profile has become U … transitory variance that rises sharply. A calibration of a buffer-stock savings model indicates that rising savings rates among … and pension reforms can account for over half of the increase in the urban household savings rate in China since the mid …
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A firm theoretical basis for the empirical relationship between dependency rates and savings behavior in developing …, and on the savings responsiveness to changes in the real interest rate …
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Mozambique has great potential in natural gas reserves and if liquefied/commercialized the sum of taxes andother fiscal revenue from natural gas will, at its peak, reach roughly one third of total fiscal revenue. Recent developments in the natural resource sector have triggered a fresh round of...
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Determining the magnitude and speed of the exchange rate passthrough (ERPT) to inflation has been of paramount importance for policy-makers in developed and emerging economies. This paper estimates the exchange rate passthrough in Mozambique using econometric techniques on a sample spanning from...
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The paper provides estimates of an error-correction model of the demand for narrow money (M1) and broad money (M2) in Mozambique. In addition, it assesses whether the rapid growth in money balances during 1996–97 represents a structural break or can be associated with the rapidly expanding...
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This paper conducts an assessment of external price competitiveness for Mozambique. A variety of indicators suggest that Mozambique has recently lost external price competitiveness with respect to its major trading partners. Consistent with these indicators, an exchange rate assessment indicates...
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Mozambique has great potential in natural gas reserves and if liquefied/commercialized the sum of taxes and other fiscal revenue from natural gas will, at its peak, reach roughly one third of total fiscal revenue. Recent developments in the natural resource sector have triggered a fresh round of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014394435